TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berzal de Dios,Jimena
TI  - Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces
T2  - Toronto Italian Studies
SN  - 9781487503888
U1  - 792.094509031 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Italian drama
KW  - To 1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theater audiences
KW  - Theater
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Theaters
KW  - Stage-setting and scenery
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Theatre architecture
KW  - city views
KW  - drama
KW  - early modern
KW  - linear perspective
KW  - scenography
KW  - sixteenth century
KW  - theatre design
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Striking the Stage --; 1. Magic and Mimesis: La Calandria and the Idea of Rome --; 2. The Artificial City on Stage --; 3. Palladio, Scamozzi, and the Built Theatre as Enclosure --; 4. The Medici Theatres, Political Aspirations, and Cognitive Autonomy --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Through an interdisciplinary examination of sixteenth-century theatre, Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces studies the performative aspects of the early modern stage, paying special attention to the overlooked complexities of audience experience. Examining the period’s philosophical and aesthetic ideas about space, place, and setting, the book shows how artists consciously moved away from traditional representations of real spaces on stage, instead providing their audiences with more imaginative and collaborative engagements that were untethered by strict definitions of naturalism. In this way, the book breaks with traditional interpretations of early modern staging techniques, arguing that the goal of artists in this period was not to cater to a single privileged viewer through the creation of a naturalistically unified stage but instead to offer up a complex multimedia experience that would captivate a diverse assembly of theatre-goers
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487518981
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487518981
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487518981/original
ER  -